Hinge



Dec. 19, 1922. 1,439,542.

P. J. FRiTGEN.

, HINGE.

FILED OCT. 2, 1921. 2 sHEEs-SHEET 2.

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Patented Dec. 19, 1922.

s'rfis `frsarr Pn'rirnl JOHN FRITGEN, or RANDOLPH, NEBRASKA.

HINGE,

Application filed October 27, 1921. Serial No. 510,721.

T0 all whom it may concern.' l

Be it known that PETER J. FRITGEN, a citizen of the United States, yresiding at Randolph, in the county of Cedar and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification, reierence being had therein to the accompanying` A further object ot the invention is to provide a hinge embodying adjacently disposed pipes, tubes of the like into the ends of which or about which hinge members are associated to carry out the function andA object of the invention just mentioned.

l/Vith these and other objects in view the device comprises certain novel parts, elements, units, members, combinations, niechanical movements and functions, as disclosed in the drawings, together with mechanical equivalents thereof as will be hereinaiter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure lis a view oi the device in side elevation;

Figure 2 is a View of the device with the gate open, seen in side elevation;

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary detail perspective view of the hinge and gate removed from the supporting post;

Figure 5 is a view in sideelevation of a dilierent type of hinge mounting;

Figure 6 is a view oi the type ot hinge mounting shown at Figure 5 with the gate shown in open position; y

Figure 7 is a transverse sectional view through the supporting structure of the type shown at and taken on line 7-7 of Figure 5, and

Figure S is a detail perspective view of the type of hinge employed in the embodi- 5 ment shown at Figures 5 and 6.

Like characters'oi reference indicate corresponding parts throughout views.

As Shown 'in` the drawings, a gate `1t)` is indicated as associated with the hinge, but the gate itselii is shown only as means of illustrating the action and mounting oithe hinge and hasno -specilic bearing thereon. Also the post 11 carrying the latch 12 has no specific relation to the hinge to which this invention is directed but some such post and latch are necessary to the complete functioning of the hinge. A post 13.01 any usual the several and ordinary type is employed, although preferably circular in cross section `and also preferably, though not necessarily, tubular, is employed and set into or supported relative to the ground in any usual and ordinary manner. To this post a tubular member 14 is a tachedin any one of several dilerent manners, one of which is by the inteiposition of a third tubular member 15, as shown at Figures 1 and 3 employing bridge members 16, or by interposing thev bridge members as 1G directly between the post 13 and the tubular member 14, as shown at Figures 5 and if'. in either instance the hinge comprises av hook 17 which hooks into the top of the ytubular member 14 and is ordinarily secured to the gate or like structure in any approved manner, as by forming integral with the bar 18 extending downwardly along. the edge of the' gate or other panel to which it is attached. rThe formation of the hook as shown at 17, especially at Figures 4 and 8, is such as to permit a lateral or swinging -movement of the hook relative tothe top end of the tubular member 14. ln the structure as shown at Figures 1 and 2 a second hook 19 is upwardly turned from the bar 18 and inserted in the lower end of' the tube 15 which, as will be noted, is spaced from the tubular member 14, a long shank 2O being interposed between the hook and the bar 18 'for that purpose. ln the type shown at Figures 5 and 6 the extended arm 20 carries a ring E31 embracing the post13, the spacing oi the tubular member 14 and the post 13 being substantially the same as the spacing oi the tubular member 14 and the pipe 15; In either event the structure is`secured rigidly together in any approved manner, as by the employment or bolts Q2 which extend through the bridge members 16 or 16.

It will be noted, of course, that the gate member is free to swing about the hook 17 at the top as a supporting pivot and the hook 19 or the ring 2O at the bottom and when swung to lateral positionwill be inolined es shown 1t-'Figures 2 and 6 against the force of gmvity7 whereby the release `of the gute from such position Will cause it to Swing to normal und to be engaged and retained by the automatic Catch, one type of which is illustrated at 12.

lt is believed that the operation off the device will be clearly understood from the foregoing description.

Win/rt l Gleim is:

l. rlfhe Combination with swinging panel of zr pos structure embodyingspaeed Vertical kseetions, o. hinge member carried by the panel having `at `its upper end a trunnion inserted intoend pniotng about the proximete member and et its bottom means forrnof fr post structure embodyingspeeed Verti- Qal'sections lying substantially in the same normal plane of the panel, a4 hinge member carried by the panel having-et `its lupper end a trunnion inserted into and pivoting` about the. proximate .memberend et its bottom an 'erm extending under and beyond the proXimate member and provided with means forming u pivot about the remote member. 3,-Tho kooinbinzrtion with a swinging panel el a post comprising members spaced in a plane coinciding with the normal plane of the panel7 e hool enrriedat the upper end of the .panel engaging in the top of the member nearest the panel, and a lpivoting member Carried by the panel extending under the seid post memberend forming pivotal engagement with the other post .member atta. `point more remote from the gate than the pivoting at the top.

ln testimony Whereo''l hereunto infix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

PETER JOHN FRITG-EN. Witnesses o STEPHEN F. BnoWNn, 4NIoH LnNHoFF. 

